Congrats to my brother!

My brother got married last weekend.  It was somewhat of a destination wedding.  It was in a little resort town on the beach about 2 hours away from Pensacola.  It was a beautiful town!  The weather was perfect!  We had such a good time (I only cried twice!)

Here is our trip in a nutshell:  We drove down to Pensacola Thursday and stayed at my mom's house that night.  Friday morning we drove over to Rosemary Beach.  My mom had planned a bridal luncheon for 1 that day.  Talk about yummy food!  (Actually we ate good all weekend!)  The rehearsal dinner was at 6 that night.  The next morning, the 3 of us ate breakfast, walked the town, ate lunch, played on the beach, went to the wedding, stayed for most of the reception, then went back to our "flat."  (yes we stayed in a flat; not a hotel or room--a flat)  Sunday morning we drove back to Pensacola, took our nephew (who is at PCC) out for lunch and some shopping, and started back home.  We stayed in Birmingham Sunday night and finished our trip home on Monday.  Daddy had Tuesday and Wednesday off too.  Tuesday we went to Wal Mart and picked up our dog.  Wednesday we went downtown to the NCAA Hall of Champions and walked around downtown.  Thursday and Friday it was back to our schedule; even though it was only 2 days it seemed like a long week!

Bridal Luncheon at a Tapas Restuarant.  We had some awesome food!

Rehearsal dinner.  This was the pretty table.  The next table over had the shrimp boil.  YUM!



What's left of the shrimp boil.



The beach and the water were beautiful!  So was the weather!

This was breakfast: a breakfast cupcake.  The cake part was pancake batter based, the icing was a molasses flavor, and it had bacon bits on top.  So very yummy!

I kinda got C to dance with me at the wedding--kinda.......

One day......

One day.......
        I'll blog about "that" week.  Not now.  Prolly not for a long time.
One day.......
        I'll see my Kalei girl again.

For now.........
        I'll blog about what is happening in our life now.  Hopefully more regular.
For now........

        I miss this sweet, crazy girl.

My sweet girl

I'll let these two posts say it all.

Kalei: my princess

July 12, 2006 - July 28, 2011

I miss her.

You are royally invited

This year for K's 5th birthday, she was able to invite some friends to her party. It started out as a tea party then became a tea party/manis&pedis. Then we added "make jewlery" to all that. At first I wasn't sure how many girls were going to be able to come. In the end, 5 little girls came, which was a nice number. The invitation asked that each girl come dressed up too, so we had 6 very nicely dressed little girls getting nails painted, making bracelets, and drinking out of nice glass tea cups. It was so much fun!

I made a "spa corner" for the girls to get their nails done. Aunt T and Meg (a good friend) came to do the painting. Each girl got to pick what color they wanted and then they got to pick out a polish to take home.

I even talked C into being the "butler" and opening the door for the girls as they came in. He was such a good sport and did a great job.

Here are the goodie bags that each girl got to take home. It had a nail file, a crown, a silly band, a squinky, some Godiva chocolate, and then the polish that they chose. K chose the purple; no shock there. (the scroll laying in front was the invitation)

Here is one little girl coming in with her puppy all dressed up too!

And of course Aunt T made the cake and did such a good job! I love her cakes!

I made some "fancier" food for snacks. The vegies were arranged to look like flowers, cheese cut out to look like flowers on top of crackers, fruit in a baggie to look like a butterfly, and fruit roll ups to look like sushi. Fun!

K got some nice presents too. She got: glow in the dark-make your own shapes-sidewalk chalk,
a new puzzle, a new purse (with $2 hidden inside), a new game for her "kindle", a Hello Kitty watch, a bath Barbie, a new book, a new umbrella, and new sunglasses with a really nice case. Plus some money, that she has already spent.

I think she had a good time. I know all the girls did. I think their favorite part was making the jewlery (I forgot a pictre of that). I know I had fun planning it all.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, K GIRL!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday K girl!

It's so hard to believe that she's 5!


She might drive me nuts at times, but I love her! She makes me laugh!